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Bug 788670 - Selecting a menu item quickly with a single click does not work anymore
Selecting a menu item quickly with a single click does not work anymore
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkMenu
3.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-10-08 13:59 UTC by Michael Kaufmann
Modified: 2018-05-02 19:13 UTC
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Description Michael Kaufmann 2017-10-08 13:59:51 UTC 
It is not possible to quickly select a menu item with a single click (point to an item in the menu bar, push the mouse button, move the mouse to an item in the pop-up menu, release the mouse button). If this takes less than 0.5 seconds, the menu stays open and no action is triggered. This is very irritating.

This may be tested with most GTK applications. I have tested with the GTK example application nr. 6 (choose "Application" -> "Preferences").

I have tracked this down to the changes of bug 703069. The changes make sense for pop-up menus that overlap with the menu bar (e.g. big menus on small screens). Unfortunately the code does not check whether there is really an overlap.

So I think the bugfix would be to only enforce the 0.5 seconds delay if there is really an overlap.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-02 19:13:56 UTC 
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